iEARN PAKISTAN

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A group of 25 students and 5 teachers from Aga Khan School, Mirpur Sakro got an opportunity to attend a two day animation workshop arranged at their school by iEARN Pakistan on 30th and 31st May 2008. Participants learnt basic animation skills and produced 30 sec animated clips on natural disasters.

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The students and teachers of The Learning House School, Manghopir, Karachi, attended a workshop on 29th and 30th April 2008 arranged at their school. A group of 30 students and 5 teachers attended animation training workshop on the theme of natural disaster. The workshop started with a brief orientation ceremony in which parents and students were invited to share experiences of student who went to Louisiana, USA on Catalyst Exchange Program. The workshop focused on all the basic animation skills that is story building, character designing, story boarding, tracing, animating and finally the post production that included capturing and producing a movie.

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A two day workshop was arranged for the students of Government Schools in Karachi on 24th and 25th April 2008 at iEARN Pakistan Centre. A group of 20 students and 8 teachers attended the workshop for animation training. It was full day workshop but participants enjoyed every moment of the workshop and were deeply involved in learning new concepts of using art as a tool of effective communication. The workshop focused on story development, breaking up a story and making story beats, timing out the film, character designing, story boarding, tracing and animating and finally the post production that included capturing and producing an animated clip. 

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As a part of Global Connection and Exchange program, a workshop titled "Effective Online Project Facilitators Workshop" was arranged at iEARN Pakistan Centre on 22nd March 2008. A group of 20 teachers attended this workshop to learn basic skills for successful project facilitation. It also provided the guidelines for forum interaction and planning and implementing an iEARN project.

iEARN-Pakistan, iEARN-Uzbekistan and iEARN-USA have successfully launched natural disaster Youth Art Exchange program named as Community CATALYST Program for  the  year 2007-2008 in partnership with  AnimAction and the Red Stick International Animation Festival. The Animation Exchange and Workshop was arranged in Baton Rouge-Louisiana, USA from 16th March to 31st March in which students and teachers from three countries Pakistan, Uzbekistan and USA participated to develop necessary skills to creating public service announcements and make meaningful contribution to the society. A four day workshop was arranged from 16th to 19th March, 2008. First two days were focused only for teachers and then the rest two days both teachers and students participated.

An iEARN Global Connection and Exchange Workshop titled "Digital Imaging Across Curriculum" was arranged for a group of 15 teachers at iEARN Pakistan Centre, Karachi on 9th Feb 2008. The workshop focused at different Art projects like Eye to Eye, Side by Side, Sense of Caring, Folk Costumes Around the World, Cultural Recipe and One Day in the Life-Digital Diary project. The workshop session introduced participants with features of digital camera and its usage, editing a picture through software,  scanning and transmitting digital images and provided hands on experience for these projects.

A Basic Course for ESL/ESL/ESOL Teachers

14 teachers from private, community, trust and public schools attended a 3-day workshop for English language teachers conducted from 31st Jan – 2nd Feb, 2008 at Rangoon Wala community centre, Karachi.  The workshop focused on the four language skills; Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking and other secondary skills like grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation.

A group of sixteen teachers from seven Global Connections Schools located in Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan including Nowshera, Kohat, Mardan and Peshawar participated in a workshop as a part of the iEARN GCEP program in Pakistan. The workshop focused at iEARN Folk Tales project which engages students in writing and sharing folktales, fairy tales and fables as means to connect and share cultures. The workshop was arranged at Lincoln Corner library at University of Peshawar, on 26th Jan 2008.

Changing Attitudes by Taking Advantage of Linking Youth  and Schools Together

An iEARN beginners workshop was arranged in Peshawar for participating schools of Community CATALYST program on January 25th, 2008. Five teachers and fourteen students from different schools in Northwest Frontier Province attended this workshop for CATALYST project launched by iEARN and AnimAction for Natural Disaster Youth Art Exchange Program.

17^th - 18^th December 2007

             Changing Attitudes by Taking Advantage of Linking Youth  and Schools Together

The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN), in partnership with  AnimAction and the Red Stick International Animation Festival launched the Community CATALYST Program.  iEARN-Pakistan scheduled an iEARN Beginners Workshop for CATALYST Group on 17th and 18th December 2007. A group of 13 teachers and 23 students from Karachi, Pakistan attended this workshop.

21^st - 26^th      July 2007

25 member delegate from different cities and towns of Pakistan participated in the 14th iEARN Annual International Conference and 11th Youth Summit in Cairo, Egypt July 21st – 26th, 2007.

1^st - 2^nd /  8^th - 9^th June 2007

iEARN Centre Pakistan scheduled a workshop for teachers for "Using Digital Tools for Creative Classroom Projects" to introduce cutting edge ICT based teaching strategies to educators and to enhance their learning. Due to increased number of interested teachers, the workshop participants were divided in two groups. First group of 15 participants attended workshop on 1st and 2nd June and the second group of 15 teachers got the training on 8th and 9th June 2007.

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